Guy Buttery returns to Durban for SA solo tour

Kicking off 2019 with concerts throughout the USA and Brazil, multi-award winning artist Guy Buttery returns home to Durban for his first nationwide solo tour of South Africa in over four years. The ‘Intramural Encounters Tour’ includes stops in every major city in SA, covering a distance of over 5,000 kilometres, with a run of 15 concerts lined up around the country.

Guy has propelled his career far beyond the borders of his beloved South Africa. As an internationally recognised musician, this multi-instrumentalist enjoys invitations to play sell-out performances all over the globe. The USA, UK, Australia, France, Brazil, and Italy have all welcomed him back year after year.

It’s no wonder he is so enthusiastic when asked about his upcoming tour of South Africa. After numerous recent collaborations with the The Odeion String Quartet, The Eastern Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, The Guy Buttery Trio and extensive touring of his world music duo with Indian sitar player, Kanada Narahari, Guy returns with a string of shows for what he is known best for – the solo concert.

“There is something so intimate and humanistic about a solo show,” said Guy. “One singular exchange of energy between performer and audience always sheds a new light on the music. Each performance offers up an inward gaze of self, hopefully for both the listener, as well as myself, acting as some form of catalyst in this process.”

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Last year Guy received the highest accolade for a musician in South Africa and was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award. In almost four decades of honouring artists throughout the country, this was the first time since its inception that the award was presented to a musician outside of the classical music realm.

Guy Buttery’s debut album in 2002, ‘When I Grow Up…’ was nominated for best instrumental and best newcomer at the South African Music Awards (SAMAs), making him the youngest nominee in the history of the event. He then went on to win a SAMA in 2010, for his album ‘Fox Hill Lane’ and again in 2014, for his first live concert recording, ‘Live in KwaZulu’.

He has also received other major national accolades, including the Ovation Award in 2010, 2012 and 2014 for his performances at the National Arts Festival. Guy was then invited to perform his works with the 52-piece KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Eastern Cape Philharmonic and had his solo performances voted as the top live show by The Cape Times.

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Guy’s Durban show takes place at the KZNSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood on Friday, 5 April. The café opens at 5pm with the concert to start at 7pm. The cost is R120. For tickets, call Angela Shaw on 083-384-3660 or email ashaw@kznsagallery.co.za.

For more information, visit www.guybuttery.co.za or www.facebook.com/guybutterymusic, or email info@guybuttery.co.za.